Writing a love song – Tam Duong
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Original key – Capo 1 (all chord forms relative to the capo)
I usually play it with capo on 5th fret because I find it easier to sing
This may not be 100% correct, but it is relatively close (I hope!) and it sounds good
Intro
e|---------------3----------|-----------3---------|-----------3--------|
B|------------------3—----3-|-------------3-----3-|--------------3----3|
G|--------0------------0----|------0---------0----|------0----------0--|
D|-----------0--------------|----2---2------------|----0---0-----------|
A|-----2--------------------|--3------------------|--2-----------------|
E|--3-----------------------|---------------------|--------------------|
e|--------------3--------|
B|--------3-------3----3-|
G|-----2-----2------2----|
D|--0--------------------|
A|-----------------------|
E|-----------------------|
The above repeats 3 times before vocals start
Verse 1
G Cadd9 D
It started out with hopeful thoughts in an empty room
G Cadd9 D
Couldn’t find the right way to say I love you
G Cadd9 D
Flipped through the dictionary, but the words were too ordinary
G Cadd9 D
You deserve so much better, but what can my pen do?
Chorus 1
G Cadd9 Em D
You are the hardest part of writing a love song
G Cadd9 Em D
Too hard to work it out when nothing’s quite spot on
G Cadd9 Em D
How can anyone describe, the angel I see in your eyes?
C G Am D G
Even as I write this line, trying to capture you
Verse 2
G Cadd9 D
At a dead end with a lazy cliché
G Cadd9 D
Wrote a couple down but can’t call it a day, gotta
G Cadd9 D
Try to think of something witty, nothing that’s been done already
G Cadd9 D
Maybe I’m trying too hard, to say what I need to say?
Chorus 2
G Cadd9 Em D
You are the hardest part of writing a love song
G Cadd9 Em D
Too hard to work it out when nothing’s quite spot on
G Cadd9 Em D
How can anyone describe, the angel I see in your eyes?
C G Am D
Even as I write this line, trying to capture you
Bridge
Em
Perfect rhymes and imagery
Bm
Metaphors and similes
Am
But what are they good for?
A G C
They don’t live up to you.
Chorus 3
G Cadd9 Em D
You are the hardest part of writing a love song
G Cadd9 Em D
Too hard to work it out when nothing’s quite spot on
G Cadd9 Em D
How can anyone describe, the angel I see in your eyes?
C G Am D
Even as I write this line, trying to capture you
Chorus 4
G Cadd9 Em D
You are the hardest part of writing a love song
G Cadd9 Em D
Too hard to work it out when nothing’s quite spot on
G Cadd9 Em D
How can anyone describe, the angel I see in your eyes?
C G Am D G
Even as I write this line, trying to capture you
